Select or create a parent idea,
Prepare a data file containing the records (for example, a list of films Title@French-Title@Type-Keywords@Year@Duration@Critics@Character1@...@Character7).
Configure the current document (options), so that custom fields names correspond to record values,
Invoke import idea function (in Ideas menu).
In the dialog box (figure 4.8), define fields to be used, the order in which they must be read to match record fields order, and set the delimiting character,
Validate or correct the import format choice. Ideas are imported in the read order, and become children of the current idea.

Idea identicator : optional string (interpreted as idea identifier. Replaced by WIT by an automated value if it is not unique or contains special (unauthorized) characters).

Idea Level : optional integer (represents the depth level of idea in the tree : used by WIT to re-create a tree instead of doing a "flat" import).

Publications : string (interpreted as link to a publication). [To be effective, the links are made with the concatenation of the author name, a space character, and the title].

Delimiter

Fields are delimited by a separator character (separator 1). A secondary delimiter (separator 2) is used to analyze multiple element fields such as keywords, images, documents, or URLs fields.

For images, documents or URLs fields, a third delimiter allows to distinguish between their names and actual paths. When this third delimiter is not found in the analyzed text, the current field value is affected to both title and
path of document / image / URL. When it is found, the value analyzed before the delimiter is the name, and the value analyzed after the delimiter is the path.

Example 1 :

The analyzed field (images) is : "c:\tmp\img1.png, c:\tmp\img2.png"

Two images are recognized :

image 1 with "img1.png" title and "c:\tmp\img1.png" path

image 2 with "img2.png" title and "c:\tmp\img2.png" path

Example 2 :

The analyzed field (images) is : "Title of image 1 | c:\tmp\img1.png, Title of image 2| c:\tmp\img2.png"

Two images are recognized :

image 1 with "Title of image 1" title and "c:\tmp\img1.png" path

image 2 with "Title of image 2" title and "c:\tmp\img2.png" path

Note : you can specify a same target field several times : in this case, imported values will be concatenated to this field.

Note : it may be useful to sort data in the file to import, in order to control final children idea sequence.

Note : When the UNICODE (UTF8) character set is chosen in the WIT options, check the "UTF-8" box if you want to force UTF8 decoding of the imported text. By default (unchecked box) WIT
decode the file text according to your current Windows character set (locale page code).